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From: lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent)
Subject: Re: 386BSD or LINUX?
Message-ID: <Bx7pKF.Aw2@ais.org>
Organization: UMCC
References: <1992Nov4.052106.29266@menudo.uh.edu> <2582@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <1992Nov4.160417.25258@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 22:09:49 GMT
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In article <1992Nov4.160417.25258@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>for the IBM PC/AT.  I have reports of linux running for 50 days (under
>actual load - not just sitting there) without a reboot (and even then
>due to upgrading the kernel), but I also have some reports of linux not

This is 50 days in a commercial operation (in a hospital I believe) with
multiple Linux boxes.  The main complaint is that they don't do token ring.

Leon Dent
lcd@ais.org